SpiralTruth
Just another post-modern quest for meaning.
Browsing SpiralTruth blog archives for September, 2008.
I’ve always felt that the major selling point for most religions is that by believing you’ll get all your wishes granted. Certainly, for many, faith goes much deeper than this. And you could argue that the true believers of other schools of thought, like capitalism or communism for example, are also simply people who think they’ll benefit from them. Anyway, I think Neil Swaab expresses these sentiments better than I ever could. Check out this great comic strip and see if you feel the same.
Chris Cornell is once again moving out of comfortable territory and working with Timbaland on his next album. You can check out some of the new tunes here.
Of course, those still stuck in the nineties will be quite upset, but as a fan of Cornell’s previous work, especially with Soundgarden, I’m excited to see him going in this direction. Perhaps if more mainstream rock musicians showed this kind of willingness to experiment, the rock scene would get back some of the life it had in its early days.
Check out this link to see who would win the 2008 American election if the entire world could vote. So far, it looks like Obama’s a pretty clear winner. Hopefully the average American feels the same way.
Props to David Letterman as he calls John McCain on his ridiculous campaign suspension stunt, telling the late night host that he had to rush to the airport to keep the economy from “cratering”. The best part is at the end, where he tunes into a live CBS news feed. McCain was somehow able to do another interview after canceling on Letterman.
There’s this notion that Alan Watts brings up about Buddhism that I think applies very appropriately to the twenty-first century. Watts suggests that when the Buddha says things like “renounce all desire,” really all he’s trying to do is start a conversation. The conversation will start on false premises. It’s impossible to renounce desire because if you really care to do so, it means you have to stop desiring to stop desiring, and that kind of thinking can drive you mad. But the idea behind this approach is that there is a central truth to it all and that this truth is not something you can communicate with words. You have to circle around the truth until you get close enough for that sudden enlightenment that we’re all looking for. I didn’t know why I reserved spiraltruth.com at first, and for years the domain just acted as a catchall for various projects. But I like this idea of truth as a spiral rather than a single point. You never really get there, but you can get closer, and that’s really what matters. This is blog for bohemians. It will most likely end up unapologetically left leaning and eclectic, something that will showcase the things I find interesting and beautiful in the world, and it will hopefully appeal to most of the fine folks I like to hang around with. What it will not be is a personal diary. Please send me hate mail immediately if I break this rule. It’s not that I’m not fascinated by reading about the various dramas that go on in other peoples’ lives – it’s just that I think that there’s already enough of that on the web, and I don’t need to add to it here. Now that that’s done, let’s see where this goes…